FY 2012 Grant Awards: State Listings

Art Works II/Arts in Media/Partnerships

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

CALIFORNIA

Abada-Capoeira San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$26,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support capoeira arts residency programs led by traditional artists in underserved Oakland and San Francisco elementary schools. Each arts education standards-based lesson combines singing, berimbau and percussion playing, capoeira movement, cultural context, and concludes with students performing together in a circle, called roda.

Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose, Inc.
San Jose, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Teacher Training Program, a year-round professional development project to teach the traditions and performance techniques of classical South Indian dance. As many as four master artists will instruct emerging Indian American Bharatanatyam choreographers, strengthening their teaching and performance skills, passing this ancient art to the next generation.

Aftermath Project
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the development of an interactive online archive and documentation and dissemination of the fifth annual book War is Only Half the Story. Featuring work by award-winning artists, the archive and book will document photographic work that reveals the consequences of war through the examination of post-conflict stories.

Alliance for California Traditional Arts
Fresno, CA
$55,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support a statewide traditional arts apprenticeship program. The project will seek out potential participants; convene a panel to select apprenticeship teams; provide technical support to the participants; document the master/apprentice work; publicize the apprenticeship with articles and presentations by each pair; and evaluate the program.

Alliance for California Traditional Arts
Fresno, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support an organizational and artistic development program and staff salaries. This project will provide technical assistance through consultancies, mentorships, and travel opportunities for traditional artists and organizations.

Architecture for Humanity (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Building Blocks for Sustainable Schools, a pilot program for greening schools nationwide. In collaboration with United States Green Building Council, the project will develop a technical and financial assistance program to support green renovation and modernization of existing school facilities.

Armory Center for the Arts (Consortium)
Pasadena, CA
$55,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Art Empowers Youth Initiative, visual arts residencies for underserved youth. In partnership with Learning Works Charter School, students will develop artistic skills in a variety of media as they create original works in the areas of urban landscape and design, digital storytelling, photography, spoken word, graphic art, and public art.

Arte Americas: The Mexican Arts Center (aka ARTE AMERICAS)
Fresno, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support new staff positions and community programming. As part of The Regeneración Project, a strategic planning process the center conducted to identify ways of including a younger generation in programming and outreach activities, newly-hired staff will develop programs that use digital technology and social media to advance the quality and relevancy of Arte Americas' music series, as well as public exhibitions Día de los Muerto and Graffiti Art Show in the Plaza.

Association for the Advancement of Filipino American Arts & Culture (aka FilAm ARTS / Festival of PhilippineArts & Culture)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the traditional components of the 21st annual Festival of Philippine Arts & Culture. The project will present traditional music and dance, arts, and crafts from different regions of the Philippines, along with craft demonstrations and a special exhibit of agricultural traditions.

Autry National Center of the American West (aka The Autry)
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of new works for the stage by Native American writers through the Native Voices at the Autry program. The program will feature a full production of The Bird House by Diane Glancy, as well as the development of other new works through staged readings, workshops, and a playwright's retreat.

Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc. (aka BAVC)
San Francisco, CA
$38,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Mediamaker Fellows program, which will provide independent video artists and producers with the technical assistance and resources they need to finish their projects. Eight emerging and mid-career artists will be selected for the year-long program, have access to BAVC's state-of-the-art facilities, and receive technical training through BAVC's digital media workshops.

Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$100,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Factory Hybrid Filmmaking Project, a pilot program for young filmmakers. The project will test strategies to develop, distribute, and engage audiences for filmmakers who are producing traditional digital and web-native short films. Also, filmmakers will learn to reach traditional audiences via film festival screenings, conferences, and through television broadcasts as well as reaching audiences across social networks.

Bethune Theatredanse (aka Infinite Dreams Program) (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Infinite Dreams, a dance instruction program for special-needs youth. In partnership with Pasadena Unified School District, residency artists will provide dance instruction for 32 weeks to special needs and non-disabled peers of elementary school age.

Bilingual Foundation of the Arts Fundación Bilingüe de las Artes (aka BFA)
LOS ANGELES, CA
$22,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the Flamenco opera Lorca, Child of the Moon by composer Ian Krouse. Based on the works of Federico García Lorca, the opera's orchestration will comprise three guitars, two pianos, a cajón, castanets, tambourines, canes, as well as an anvil and hammer.

Blank Theatre Company
Hollywood, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 20th annual Nationwide Young Playwrights Festival, the culmination of a competition for young writers. The winning teen playwrights will participate in rehearsals and re-writes prior to fully-staged performances of their scripts.

Bluepalm
Los Angeles, CA
$14,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Micheltorena Dance Project, a 16-week professional development program to establish dance and movement-based learning in Micheltorena Elementary School. Teachers will develop dance skills, learn appropriate vocabulary to assess dance, use dance-making to explore core concepts in learning, place dance work in a historical context, and identify relationships between learning in the arts and other content areas.

Cal Poly Corporation (on behalf of Cal Poly Arts)
San Luis Obispo, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the JumpBrush Pacific Coast Dance Convergence, a biennial dance festival. The festival will feature a "Reverse Residency," in which guest artist Joe Goode Performance Group will work with local choreographers to stage a new work which will premiere at the end of the festival.

California Alliance for Arts Education
Pasadena, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Research
To support a statewide analysis of the access, equity, quantity, and diversity of arts education in California schools. The report will detail the status and condition of arts education in California's K-12 public schools, explore five-year trends, and investigate how California compares with other states and nationwide.

California Arts Council
Sacramento, CA
$1,092,300
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

California Institute of the Arts (aka CalArts) (on behalf of Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater)
Valencia, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the 20/20 Interdisciplinary Initiative at the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater. The project will feature a series of residencies, commissions, performances, and festivals and will include artists such as poet/performer Marc Bamuthi Joseph, theater ensemble Elevator Repair Service, dance company Body Weather Laboratory, and performance ensemble Nature Theater of Oklahoma.

California International Theatre Festival
Sherman Oaks, CA
$17,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the California International Theatre Festival. Performances will occur at venues in downtown Los Angeles, Calabasas, and Ventura, California. Plays under consideration include White Cabin by the Akhe Russian Engineering Theatre, The Neighbors Sadness is Deeper by the Emanuella Amichai Company of Israel, and Absurdesque by Theatre Labor of Germany.

California Lawyers for the Arts, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support training and public meetings on a variety of legal topics for arts professionals. This three-part project includes the development of a mediation training program for intellectual property disputes; the Arts and Environmental Initiative for individuals interested in addressing environmental issues through the arts; and the Arts-in-Corrections Initiative to support arts projects in correctional facilities.

Center for Asian American Media
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the project, Memories to Light: Asian American Home Movies. The Center for Asian American Media will request home movie footage from the Asian American community and create an interactive website and curate national touring exhibitions from the collected footage.Thematic programming will engage issues of immigration, assimilation, and personal journeys.

Chance Theater
Anaheim, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a production of Jerry Springer: The Opera, written by Richard Thomas and Stewart Lee. Featuring post-show discussions with artists and audience members after each performance, the production is a musical commentary on American society's fascination with reality television and the media.

Colburn School
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Musical Encounter Program. The peer-to-peer program will introduce music programs (classical, jazz, and the vocal arts) to underserved elementary school students through concerts performed by honor students.

Collage Dance Theatre (aka Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a series of site-specific performances by choreographer Heidi Duckler. The works will be created around the theme of "expulsion," relating to issues of migration, dislocation, and the fragile nature of home.

Community Works West, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Teenalive, a visual arts residency focused on violence intervention and prevention. Building on their skills in printmaking, stenciling, and repetition of imagery, Teenalive participants will lead workshops during which their fellow students will create multiple self-portraits that conceptually and formally explore the impact of violence on their lives.

Cornerstone Theater Company, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of the Urban & Rural Residency Project. A collaboration between playwright Sigrid Gilmer and director Michael John Garces, the project will culminate in a new play. The project will explore subsistence and commercial farming systems in rural and urban areas and involve the participation of urban and agricultural communities in the South Central Farm, the San Fernando and San Joaquin Valleys, and the City of Long Beach, California.

CounterPULSE (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the CounterPULSE Performing Diaspora program, for dance artists who are using traditional performance as a foundation for experimentation and innovation. In partnership with the National Steinbeck Center, the program will include residencies, creation of works, festivals, a symposium, discussion series, and an interactive online platform.

Craft in America, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the development and launch of short videos featuring craft artists on the Craft in America YouTube Channel. The videos, one to be uploaded every week, will feature artists from across the United States working in metal, glass, fiber, ceramics, and wood. A database searchable by craft, artist, and medium will also be created along with educator guides.

Crosspulse
Oakland, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of Body Tjak 13, a new multidisciplinary collaborative work. Members from body music ensembles Çudamani (Bali, Indonesia), Barbatuques (São Paulo, Brazil), and Slammin All-Body Band (Oakland, CA) will use movement, dance, rhythm, sound, and voice to create the work.

CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation (aka California State University Fullerton)
Fullerton, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a master class series for university and high school students. Artists will include pianists Louis Lortie and Helene Grimaud, violinists Itzhak Perlman and Jennifer Koh, conductors Keith Lockhart and David Robertson, singers Charles Castronovo and Natalie Dessay, wind players from the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen.

Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County
Santa Cruz, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support a subgranting program for Santa Cruz County artists and arts organizations. Project support for innovative arts projects, cultural festivals, traditional art forms, and community cultural celebrations will be awarded through a competitive review process.

Cutting Ball Theater (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Strindberg Cycle, a presentation of all five chamber plays by Swedish playwright August Strindberg. A partnership with scholars from the University of California at Berkeley's Department of Scandinavian Studies, the project will be performed with a digital technology component to engage audiences and create space for dialogue. An open access website will provide multiple avenues for audience participation, access to historical and contextual information, and multimedia documentation of the work.

Dance Camera West
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of the Dance Camera West Dance Media Film Festival. Activities will include programs of international short dance films, a documentary series, a short film series, outdoor screenings of dance and site-specific media, a Screendance Filmmakers Lab, and several panels with production professionals, producers, and distributors.

Diamano Coura West African Dance Co.
Oakland, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 18th annual Collage des Cultures Africaines. The project will support a series of workshops on, and performances of, traditional African dance and music presented by master artists from Africa. In addition, the project will include an African Art exhibit, a symposium on technology and the evolution of traditional art, and discussions on the current state of the arts of the African Diaspora.

Diavolo Dance Theater
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support education and outreach programs. The company will partner with venues in Los Angeles while on tour to present Young People's Concerts, master classes, intensive training residencies, lectures, and open rehearsals.

Dimensions Dance Theater, Inc.
OAKLAND, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the educational outreach program Rites of Passage. The program focuses on the Congolese Diaspora and will include classes in Congolese, West African, Afro-Haitian, Afro-Cuban, modern, jazz, and Brazilian dance, as well as tap, ballet, percussion, spoken-word, acting, hip-hop, and choreography.

EastSide Arts Alliance
Oakland, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Jazz in Communities, an initiative designed to utilize jazz as a vehicle to unify and strengthen East Oakland. Components include the free, annual Malcolm X JazzArts Festival; Bop Gun, weekly jazz jam sessions pairing hip-hop youth with established jazz musicians; and workshops, lectures, film, and jazz concerts featuring artists such as Ambrose Akinmusire, Nasheet Waits, and John Santos.

Film Independent, Inc. (aka FIND)
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Talent Development Programs. Components include Project Involve, a mentorship program; Filmmaker Labs, a hands-on workshop program; and Filmmaker Forum, a series of panel discussions and master classes.

Free History Project
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production and post-production costs for The Imagination of Jeremy Blake, an experimental non-fiction film about the young New York artist. Blake's "time-based paintings" that combine handmade art, photographs, film clips, sound effects, and pop imagery brought him fame in the late 1990s. It is intended for national broadcast on PBS as well as distribution in theaters and classrooms.

Friends of Olympia Station (aka Tandy Beal and Company)
Santa Cruz, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the touring of HereAfterHere: A Self-Guided Tour of Eternity, created by choreographer Tandy Beal. The work is interwoven with multigenerational dancers, text, and brief video interviews with the public about what happens after death.

Gabriella Axelrad Education Foundation (aka everybody dance!)
Los Angeles, CA
$28,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support everybody dance!, a year-round program providing weekly dance classes to students in Gabriella Charter School. Students will work with professional dance instructors, attend performances, and will perform publicly in the community.

Gay Men\'s Chorus of Los Angeles
West Hollywood, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the A-Live Music Project, an outreach program for high school students. In-school master classes, recitals, discussions, open rehearsals, and performances will be provided free-of-charge in up to 14 area schools.

Global Lives Project Inc
Mountain View, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the development and pilot of an interactive web platform and video installation of the Global Lives Project. The project is a volunteer-driven, artist collective that videotapes 24 continuous hours in the lives of individuals around the world. The web platform will allow visitors to view footage and interact with the content.

Global Lives Project, Inc.
Mountain View, CA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production, post-production, and distribution costs for Producing Lives in Transit. Global Lives will work with 10 media artists in different countries to create day-in-a-life portraits of people who work in various transportation jobs such as bus fare collectors, flight attendants, bicycle rickshaw drivers, etc.

Grabhorn Institute
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support Bookmaking, Writing, and Art, a series of demonstrations, lectures, and exhibitions. The programming will explore the connections between traditional bookmaking crafts and the work of writers and artists, and will take place in a unique historic working type foundry and letterpress, the nation's only remaining such operation.

Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, Inc
San Francisco, CA
$100,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the development and implementation of a series of data-driven art works intended for the public. The National Data Canvas Project will produce interactive, visualized displays created from, and responsive to, digital information. There will be a national tour and within each city, data-sets that relate to location will be visualized and made into art that directly connects with the local public.

HeArt Project
Los Angeles, CA
$65,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support a year-long arts weekly workshop series in alternative arts-focused high schools throughout Los Angeles County. Resident teaching artists and classroom teacherswill teach visual and performing arts in coordination with exhibit and concerts at museums, theaters, and cultural centers in Los Angeles.

HUC Skirball Cultural Center
Los Angeles, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Journeys and Encounters: A Performing Arts Series at the Skirball. The series will explore the connections between Jewish history and American democratic ideals through performances, exhibitions, film screenings, and educational activities by artists such as Septeto Roberto Rodriguez, British multidisciplinary ensembles Stan's Café and Blast Theory, and playwright Robert Karimi.

Hutchins Consort
Encinitas, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support research and development costs for a documentary film about Carleen Hutchins, a scientist who created a new set of eight violins in the 1960s. The instruments, variations on the violin itself, were an innovation in both the scientific and music communities. The film will explore this topic as well as the challenges Hutchins faced as a woman in the scientific community.

Independent Television Service, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the selection, acquisition, and packaging of films for the public television series Independent Lens. This weekly PBS series provides the public with access to innovative, dramatic, animated, and documentary works by independent filmmakers. In addition to broadcast, films are offered online through Hulu, Snag Films, and YouTube along with streaming on Independent Lens's website.

Instituto Mazatlán Bellas Artes de Sacramento
Sacramento, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Viva el Arte, a presentation of Mexican folk dance and culture in Northern California. Instituto Mazatlán will present traditional Mexican dance, offer master classes for area dancers, and provice a pre-show lecture explaining the traditions and customs expressed in the dance.

Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support Giant Robot Artists' Entourage, a series of public outreach activities in conjunction with the museum's exhibition Giant Robot III. The project includes the implementation of a series of arts workshops, presented both to the public onsite and in two Los Angeles County high schools; development of an accompanying curriculum; a series of artist-guided public programs; and the installation of selected student artwork.

Jazz Tap Ensemble, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the production of Masters & Mentors, the third in a series of DVD documentaries of original works by and for the Jazz Tap Ensemble. The DVD will feature performances and choreography by tap artists such as Gregory Hines, Jimmy Slyde, Harold Nicholas, Eddie Brown, and Brenda Bufalino.

Khmer Arts Academy
Long Beach, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Cambodian classical dance training. Students are taught in weekly workshops by experienced master artists, including NEA National Heritage Fellow Sophiline Cheam Shapiro.

Kitka, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support an online archive that will document and preserve the vocal ensemble's 32-year performance history and educational activities. Plans include website enhancements, video recording of eight local performances and educational activities during a two-year period, and the conversion of historical audio and video content to online digital formats.

Kulintang Arts (aka KULARTS)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support creation of a choreographed production of the epic Filipino tale of Ibon Ng Adarna (Adarna Bird). Using traditional Pilipino dance techniques and Pilipino mythology, the work will be performed by dancers and musicians from the Parangal Dance Company and Kawayan Folk Arts, fostering the development of a new generation of Pilipino American dance artists and expanding their knowledge of Pilipino tribal dances.

L.A. Theatre Works
Venice, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support The Play's the Thing, a live audio theater performance series featuring renowned actors performing classic and contemporary plays with scripts-in-hand at microphones before live audiences. Performances are recorded and post-produced into master recordings for preservation and dissemination.

L.A. Theatre Works
Venice, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and distribution of The Play's the Thing, a radio theater series intended for broadcast on satellite and public radio stations nationwide. The 52-week series will include new radio plays as well as selections from L.A. Theatre Works' extensive audio drama collection. In addition to broadcast, programs are made available through Internet streaming, podcasts, and on HD radio.

La Peña Cultural Center, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Hip Hop Beyond Gender: Women & Two-Spirits in Hip Hop Art and Culture. Artists including poet Aya de Leon, performer Aisha Fukushima, and DJ Rosa La Rumorosa will be featured in performances, panels, workshops, and film screenings.

La Pocha Nostra Inter Cultural Performance & Community Arts
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a training workshop for national and international performance artists and activists at San Francisco's Performance Art Institute, to culminate in an original public performance. Participants will train with Artistic Director Guillermo Gómez-Peña and resident artist/instructors, using a multicultural and multidisciplinary methodology that will include theater, dance, improvisation, and ritual performance.

Latino Public Broadcasting
Burbank, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support post-production costs for Mariachi High, an hour-long documentary about a year in the life of students in the top-ranked Mariachi ensemble in South Texas. The film will examine growing up Mexican American and the positive influence playing Mariachi music has on these students. Once completed, Mariachi High will be offered to PBS for national broadcast and screened at festivals, high schools, and community organizations.

Latino Theatre Company
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry by Marcus Gardley, in partnership with the Lark Play Development Center. The play traces the history of the Seminole Freedmen, the descendants of black and Seminole peoples in the mid-1800s. In order to raise public awareness of the play's themes and create a space for dialogue, the company will use the Lark's Launching New Plays Initiative model of artistic and community engagement to host workshops, readings, and community engagement events in conjunction with the professional production.

LAXART
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Made in L.A. 2012. The first art biennial in the City of Los Angeles will include exhibitions, outdoor sculptural installations, free public programs, performances, film screenings, artist talks, and panel discussions showcasing the work of emerging and under-recognized artists experimenting in a wide range of media.

LEVYdance, Inc. (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support AMP, an innovative program that pools valuable resources to create an alternative to the single choreographer dance company model. In partnership with Headlands Center for the Arts, LEVYdance will engage in an eight-week residency with guest choreographer Sidra Bell and two of her dancers to create new work.

Litquake Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the annual literary festival Litquake, featuring readings, performances, cross-media literary events, panel discussions, workshops, and the commissioning of original works of fiction. This youthful, non-traditional, week-long festival includes a Lit Crawl, with 400 authors in 75 venues around the Bay area in a four-hour time period, as well as special events geared toward elementary school students (Kidquake) and middle and high school students (Teenquake).

Lobero Theatre Foundation
Santa Barbara, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support DANCEworks, a four-week residency for an emerging choreographer at the historic Lobero Theatre. SUMMERDANCE Santa Barbara will collaborate on the project to provide an artist with significant time and space to develop new work on an actual stage (instead of in a studio).

Los Angeles County Arts Commission (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Arts for All Residency Grant Program, an innovative consortium with the Los Angeles County Office of Education that helps school districts devise and implement plans for teaching the arts to public school students. Professional artists will provide dance, music, theater, and visual arts residencies in kindergarten to 12th-grade classrooms.

Los Angeles Poverty Department (aka LAPD)
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the third annual Festival for All Skid Row Artists, a project designed to recognize and encourage creativity in the Skid Row neighborhood of Los Angeles. The festival will showcase and document the work of Skid Row artists and link them to resources through an artist registry.

Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center (Consortium)
San Pablo, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Cultures of Mexico in California, a project that uses vernacular Mexican music and dance to examine cultural identity among Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans. In collaboration with the Migrant Education Program, Region 16, Los Cenzontles will present performances of traditional Mexican music and dance and produce documentary films, recordings, and workshops on traditional Mexican arts and their role in the community.

Luna Kids Dance
Emeryville, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Dance Learning Institutes, providing professional development to dance teaching artists and classroom teachers. Through the Summer Institute and Advanced Summer Institutes, educators will improve their knowledge, skills, and understanding of how to engage students in kindergarten through 12th grade in standards-based dance learning, with follow-up professional development throughout the school year.

Matsutoyo Kai (aka Minyo Station)
Gardena, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support performances and a workshop of Japanese folk music. The event will feature performances of traditional music and dance from Japan by local artists and a guest artist from Japan, Madame Matsuhiromi Sato, as well as workshops offering instruction for playing the shamisen (a three-stringed banjo-like instrument) and singing the traditional song "Cherry Blossom."

Merola Opera Program
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support master teachers and instructors at the professional level in a training program for singers, apprentice coaches, and an apprentice stage director. Participants will receive private coaching and attend master classes for intergenerational exchange between veterans in the opera field and emerging newcomers.

Mo'olelo Performing Arts Company
San Diego, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Kita y Fernanda by Tanya Saracho and the engagement of Hispanic/Latino communities. Through a partnership with South Bay Community Services, local Mexican American youth will be invited to serve on the dramaturgical team as it explores the script's depiction of immigration, language, and class issues.

Monterey County Symphony Association (aka Monterey Symphony)
Monterey, CA
$17,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the semi-staged concert production of Amahl and the Night Visitors by composer and librettist Gian Carlo Menotti. Music Director Max Bragado-Darman and project partner Dona D. Vaughn (Artistic Director of Opera, Manhattan School of Music) will lead a production featuring mezzo-soprano Suzanne Mentzer, local performers and stagehands provided by the S.T.A.R. Foundation, and set designs produced in local community art programs.

Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana de San Jose, Inc. (aka MACLA)
San Jose, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Placas, a new bilingual theater production written by Paul S. Flores. The play, which will be directed by Michael John Garces and feature Ricardo Salinas of the performance troupe Culture Clash in the title role, tells the story of three generations of a family who lived through the El Salvadoran civil war, their subsequent migration to the United States, and the resulting formation of immigrant gangs in California's inner cities.

Mozilla Foundation
Mountain View, CA
$100,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Open(Art) a program to commission artists and technologists to collaborate in the creation and exhibition of artwork on the web. Open(Art), a joint venture between Mozilla and Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in New York City, is an invitational competition for teams of artists and technologists. Up to three teams will be provided with access to Eyebeam resources, a stipend, and six months to bring the commissioned work to a point where it can be exhibited online for public comment.

Museum of Jurassic Technology
Culver City, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support a concert series Folk Music from Central Asia and the Near East. The performance series will present traditional music of cultures from Central Asia and the Near East through musical performances and conversations with artists from this region.

Museum of Photographic Arts
San Diego, CA
$39,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a photographic outreach initiative targeted to senior citizens. The program includes a hands-on photography course, museums tours, and an off-site lecture that enables the participants to develop new technical, aesthetic, and critical-thinking skills.

Musical Theatre West
Long Beach, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the expansion and enhancement of the Reiner Reading Series. The project includes a series of lesser-known musical theater works performed with reduced orchestrations and minimal staging and choreography with at least one musical presented in a concert format with full orchestrations and casting.

National Alliance of Media Arts Centers, Inc. (aka National Alliance for Media Arts + Culture) (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$80,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support services to the not-for-profit media arts field. National Alliance for Media Arts + Culture will focus on three core areas: 1) a six-month leadership institute; 2) providing technical assistance to its constituency; and 3) expanding its online and social media network.

National Association of Latino Independent Producers, Inc. (aka NALIP)
Santa Monica, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the ninth Latino Media Market that will connect filmmakers with representatives from both the not-for-profit and commercial film and television fields. Participating organizations include Miramax Films, HBO, American Documentary/POV, Fine Line Features, and the Sundance Channel.

National Federation of Community Broadcasters, Inc. (aka NFCB)
Oakland, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support workshops specifically focused on arts and cultural programming and the art of radio at the 2012 annual Community Radio Conference. Workshops to be offered include Storytelling in Sound and Pictures, The Future of Music, and Interviewing on the Fly.

Network of Ensemble Theaters (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Theater of Place Cycle, an examination of the arts as an integral part of the solution to challenges facing communities and an exploration of work that lives at the intersection of art, civics, and community. In a partnership with Animating Democracy (a program of Americans for the Arts), three regionally focused events in Detroit, Eastern Kentucky, and New Orleans will explore the practices through which local artists and ensembles are revitalizing, remembering, and restoring "place" within their communities.

Network of Ensemble Theaters
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Ensembles All-Together Building Capacity (Ensembles ABCs) program, a training series designed to increase the organizational capacity and sustainability of ensemble theater companies. Ensembles ABCs will offer a series of eight workshop seminars throughout the United States on a variety of artistic and administrative topics, including financial literacy, touring, board and ensemble leadership, and strategic planning.

Ninth Street Media Consortium, Inc. (aka Ninth Street Independent Film Center)
San Francisco, CA
$22,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a programmatic collaboration at the Ninth Street Independent Film Center, a consortium of eight media arts organizations all housed in one building. The Collaborative Connections Initiative includes a residency program, a media education program for youth, and access for filmmakers and other not-for-profits to a state-of-the-art screening room.

Oakland Museum of California Foundation
Oakland, CA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the digitization and interpretation of the museum's photography collection of works by Andrew J. Russell (1830-1902). The collection, which documents the building of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, will be catalogued, cleaned, re-housed, and made accessible through an online exhibition.

Old Globe Theatre (aka The Old Globe)
San DIego, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 2012 Summer Shakespeare Festival and accompanying education and outreach programs. Activities will include three professional productions performed in rotating repertory, a Shakespeare Intensive for teens, a Middle School Conservatory, and audience engagement through Insight Seminars, post-show forums, and Shakespeare in the Garden lectures.

Other Minds (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Other Minds New Music Preservation Project/radiOM.org. This project will convert archival live recordings of performances, interviews, and conversations with innovative composers and artists of 20th-century American music into digital media and make them available worldwide at www.radiOM.org, for free public access. In partnership with Internet Archive, Other Minds will select and prepare the materials featuring leading American artists, such as Lou Harrison, Pauline Oliveros, Rainer Schulte, Brian Eno, and Frank Zappa.

Pacific Asia Museum
Pasadena, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the creation of digital audio tours of the museum's permanent collections. These tours, to be delivered to the public via cell phone and the Internet, will be available in English, Chinese, and Korean.

PEN Center USA West (aka PEN Center USA)
Beverly Hills, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Freedom to Write, a series of readings, panels, workshops, and outreach programs targeting writers in underserved communities. The project includes Emerging Voices, a fellowship program for aspiring writers; The Mark, a rigorous manuscript finishing school for Emerging Voices fellows; PEN in the Classroom, providing creative writing residencies for at-risk youth; and The Bridge, a more advanced level of instruction for young writers.

Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County (aka Music Center)
Los Angeles, CA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Arts Integration Partnership, a professional development program designed to build capacity for sequential, integrated, standards-based arts instruction. Working in collaboration with teachers, principals, and students in a district-wide partnership, the project will support an institute for educators, curriculum planning meetings, classroom support, and field trips to see professional performances.

Playwrights Project
San Diego, CA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support SEEDS (Stimulating Educational Excellence with Drama Standards), a playwriting residency program. Underserved middle and high school students will work with teaching artists in their classrooms to create original plays as a means to improve reading and vocabulary skills, culminating in a reading of students' work by professional actors.

Public Corporation for the Arts of the City of Long Beach (aka Arts Council for Long Beach)
Long Beach, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Eye on Design, a public art education program for third grade students in the Long Beach Unified School District. During the 15-week program, artists-in-residence and community arts organizations will teach students about local history, public art, architecture, and design, leading to student design and creation of public art mosaics for their schools.

Public Design Studio (aka Public Architecture)
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the 1% Program that connects not-for-profits with pro bono services from architecture and design firms. Project activities include the engagement of national, high impact not-for-profits to expand the 1% Program to specifically meet the design needs of national not-for-profits and their local affiliates.

Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Filmmaker Training Program. The 16-week, hands-on workshops provide underserved students with skills in scripting, storyboarding, production planning, cinematography, directing and editing.

Regents of the University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Movers & Shakers: Innovators in the Arts series at UCSB Arts & Lectures. The series will feature artists including multidisciplinary ensemble Hotel Modern (Netherlands), choreographer Akram Khan (UK), string quartet Brooklyn Rider, actor John Malkovich, theater/dance ensemble DV8 Physical Theatre (United Kingdom), and glass artist Dale Chihuly.

Renaissance Arts Academy (aka RenArts)
Los Angeles, CA
$67,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support tuition-free music and dance instruction and ensemble programs for northeast Los Angeles middle and high school students who have had no previous training. The Renaissance Arts Academy facility becomes The Conservatory from 3:30-5:30 pm, Monday through Friday, from October-August for students from diverse ethnic, economic, and cultural backgrounds to study a performing arts curricula designed to create ongoing engagement with music and dance.

San Diego Museum of Art
San Diego, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support an art-making residency. Targeted to teenagers from a culturally diverse community in Southeast San Diego, the program will include visits to three different San Diego museums -- the Museum of Art, the Timken Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art -- and will allow the teens to work in a studio environment with three professional artists from their own neighborhood.

San Diego State University Foundation
San Diego, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Heartpower, an outreach performance project by young musicians for audiences in underserved communities throughout the San Diego area. Concerts and workshops will be conducted in diverse community and social service centers, such as juvenile justice system facilities, homeless veteran centers, and public libraries.

San Diego Symphony Orchestra Association
San Diego, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Historical Notes, a concert program for students in grades 8 and 11. Programming using repertoire by American composers will be designed to coincide with Behold America!, a major museum exhibition by the San Diego Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, and the Timken Museum.

San Francisco Arts Commission (on behalf of San Francisco WritersCorp)
San Francisco, CA
$63,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support WritersCorps, a creative writing program for at-risk youth in underserved public schools. Working primarily in language arts classrooms and using creative writing activities thematically linked to literature, writers will work in under-performing schools for approximately eight months to supplement the curricula and strengthen students' writing skills.

San Francisco Arts Commission
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the Artery Project, featuring site-specific installations and performances to take place in the Mid-Market Cultural District. The commission will solicit proposals for funding ($5,000-$20,000) for innovative site-specific installations and performances -- giving priority to neighborhood artists and groups -- while inviting applicants citywide to envision community art activation projects.

San Francisco Chanticleer, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a national concert tour and residency program. Programming will be directed by Music Director Matthew Oltman, and all of the ensemble singers will participate in the educational programs, featuring contemporary and traditional repertoire, as part of the residency activities.

San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Chamber Music Day, a free day-long chamber music festival. The festival will feature chamber ensembles from the San Francisco Bay Area in performances at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in Civic Center.

San Francisco Performances, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the presentation of commissioned works, as well as world and regional premieres of music and dance works. Related workshops, master classes, and lectures will help audiences increase their understanding and enjoyment of the live performances; artists include pianist Jonathan Biss, Elias String Quartet, tenor Mark Padmore, clarinetist Carey Bell, violist Scott St. John, The Bad Plus jazz trio, Philip Glass Ensemble, and Paul Taylor Dance Company.

San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Assn Spur (aka SPUR)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Grand Reductions: Ten Diagrams that Shaped the City. An exhibition, publication, and public programming series will feature simple diagrams that demonstrate the power of visual communication in reducing complex ideas to simple, iconic distillations of values, policy agendas, and ideologies.

San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Poetry Center Digital Archive, one of the largest and oldest collections of poetry recordings in the country. The university will preserve, transfer, catalog, and make accessible for free 100 additional at-risk original videos of poetry readings between 1973 and 1986.

San Jose Downtown Foundation
San Jose, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Downtown Doors, featuring the work of Santa Clara County high school students. Selected artists will have their work digitized, enlarged, and transferred onto vinyl adhesive decals and installed on utility doors at sidewalk level throughout downtown San Jose.

Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Inc.
Santa Barbara, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Forum Lounge. The year-long performance art series will present artists working with music, dance, video, and other multimedia formats in galleries and at specific sites around Santa Barbara. An artist-in-residence will present workshops and performances to area schools.

Scripps College (on behalf of Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery)
Claremont, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support conservation of Chinese textiles from the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery. The seven art works, dating from the 16th to the 19th centuries, will be conserved off-site using traditional and modern conservation techniques.

Small Press Distribution, Inc. (aka SPD)
Berkeley, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the expanded distribution of independently published books to booksellers, librarians, educators, and individual readers. As the only distributor focusing solely on literary titles, SPD plays a crucial role in the distribution of roughly 10,000 titles from more than 400 publishers around the country.

Small Press Distribution, Inc. (aka SPD) (Consortium)
Berkeley, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support outreach to literary audiences through the use of accurate and timely bibliographic information on books distributed by SPD. To help promote these titles to booksellers, librarians, and individual readers, and thus keep small presses competitive in today's market, SPD will expand its acquisition and dissemination of digital information to include not just a book's author, title, and price, but reviews, promotional quotes, excerpts, cover scans, and other rich content.

Somerset Foundation, Inc.
Santa Monica, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the creation of a DVD version of the three-hour film On Company Business. Produced by Howard Dratch and aired on PBS in 1980, On Company Business explores the CIA's involvement in foreign policy since its inception in 1947.

Southern California Asian American Studies Central (aka Visual Communications) (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Digital Histories Project. In partnership with the Little Tokyo Service Center Community Development Corporation, Visual Communications provides hands-on video production training to senior citizens.

Squaw Valley Community of Writers
Nevada City, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Screenwriting Program, a week-long workshop that focuses on the essence of storytelling and teaches participants how to "show" rather than "tell" their stories. During the project, professional staff will provide 25 students with an introduction to the language and grammar of film to help them write clear, readable, and intelligent scripts.

Stanford University (aka Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford University) (on behalf of Stanford Lively Arts)
Stanford, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Traditional Voices, New Visions at Stanford Lively Arts. The series will inaugurate the new Bing Concert Hall and feature works by artists including composer John Luther Adams, percussionist Glenn Kotche, Fisk Jubilee Singers, and musical theater ensemble Making Books Sing.

Stockton Symphony Association, Inc. (Consortium)
Stockton, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Harmony Stockton, a free, daily, after-school music program for third, fourth and fifth grade students at Marshall Elementary School. In partnership with Stockton Unified School Distict, students will participate in intensive music classes such as Fundamentals of Music, which emphasizes ear training, rhythm, singing, and listening, and and String Instrument Instruction, which includes guided practice sessions on string instruments.

Street Poets, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$34,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Street Poets Poetry Project, poetry writing classes targeted to high-risk youth in juvenile detention centers, continuation schools, public high schools, and community centers. Through writing workshops, field trips to live poetry performances, discussion groups, camps, and publication of their own work, professional artists will introduce youth to a wide range of poetry, teach creative writing, and help youth develop their artistic voice.

Streetside Stories, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Growing Up With the Arts Project. Workshops with sequential, engaging art programs in reading, writing, and expressing stories dramatically or through digital photography will be offered to kindergarten to 12th-grade students during and after school.

Theatre & Arts Foundation of San Diego County (aka La Jolla Playhouse)
La Jolla, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 2013 Performance Outreach Program Tour. The tour revolves around a professional theater production for young audiences commissioned by the Playhouse. The project will include an on-site and interactive reading of the production as well as pre-performance workshops and engagement activities, and professional, in-school performances throughout San Diego.

Theatre Bay Area
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Leveraging Social Media program. The training program will help theaters in five cities across the United States as well as national service organizations to better utilize social media tools to deepen their relationships with their constituents and build new audiences.

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production costs for a video game based on the writings of Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond. The player will inhabit an open, three-dimensional game world which will simulate the geography and environment of Walden Woods. Once developed, the game will be available online.

Watts Village Theater Company (aka WVTC)
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and performances of Meet Me @Metro: Uncovering LA's Hidden Treasures. The company will collaborate with arts organizations, cultural museums, and historical societies to develop new work and multidisciplinary live performance celebrating Latino, Japanese, and Native American historical contributions throughout greater Los Angeles.

Western Jazz Presenters Network, Inc.
La Jolla, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the presentation and touring of two of jazz piano trios led by Jacky Terrasson and Fred Hersch through the Western United States. The artists will be presented in 14 not-for-profit venues in states including Arizona, California, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, and Washington, during two tours per artist during the 2012-13 season.

Women\'s Audio Mission (aka WAM)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Girls on the Mic. Targeted to girls aged 8-18, Girls on the Mic teaches digital media production and music recording technology skills.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Big Ideas, a series of multidisciplinary performances, film screenings, and exhibitions. The program of film, visual, and performance works will include the Kronos Quartet, visual artists Nayland Blake and Shih Chieh Huang, and choreographer Maria Helena Pinto (Mozambique).

Young Musicians Foundation
Beverly Hills, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Music Mentors Program. Youth in the Debut Orchestra will serve as mentors in instrumental music to sixth graders at Lennox Middle School After-School Program (LEAP). The Debut Orchestra mentors will attend professional development workshops covering fundamentals of mentoring, principles of youth development, and teaching strategies and will provide music instruction to the middle school students weekly for 32 weeks.

Youth in Arts
San Rafael, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a production of Goodnight Gorilla, adapted from the popular children's book by Peggy Rathman. The new musical for pre-school through second-grade children and their families will be created in collaboration with Rathman, a local Marin County author/illustrator, with original music created in collaboration with JazzReach, a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to jazz education.

ZeroOne - The Art and Technology Network (aka ZER01)
San Jose, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the biennial exhibition Seeking Silicon Valley. The biennial will present an anchor exhibition in downtown San Jose, exhibitions of newly commissioned site-specific public artworks sited on the campuses of Silicon Valley technology companies, as well as a festival, outdoor projections, performances, public lectures, and workshops.

Number of Grants: 131          Total Amount: $5,011,300

 
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